Cement News tagged: International
Pakistan: growth in local cement consumption unabated
Pakistan's cement industry dispatches to domestic markets during May 2017 stood at 3.399Mt compared to 3.065Mt during same month last year. The home market shows a healthy increase of 10.90 per cent on YoY basis. However, exports during May 2017 were 0.309Mt, against 0.558Mt during May 2016, showing a reduction of 44.58 per cent. Total dispatches (local and export) during May 2017 were 3.70...
Ada plant completes modernisation programme
Holcim Ada plant (LafargeHolcim group) unveiled its upgraded plant at its Ada, Oklahoma, USA, after a three-year modernisation project. The investment focussed on construction of a new kiln line designed to meet and exceed emission limits, improve operational performance and increase capacity to meet market growth. As a result, cement capacity at the the plant is anticipated to increase b...
Dangote Cement's Congo plant nears completion
Dangote Cement Plc is close to completing its new US$300m cement grinding plant at Bouansa in the Republic of Congo and plans to commence production this month. With the project the company hopes to boost its production capacity by at least 1.5Mta and help the Nigeria-based multinational achieve its target of being a major cement exporter on the continent. The Plant Director for Congo Ope...
Plans to set up cement facilities near India’s thermal power plants
Fifteen companies in India have expressed an interest to set up cement plants near NTCP power stations to help dispose the power company of the 52Mt fly ash generated by its projects. In addition, NTPC is also scouting for captive consumers to create the demand for the electricity generated by its plants as the cement facilities will be required to buy power from the nearby NTPC works. "Int...
SFIC: French cement demand to grow 3-4% in 2017
A boom in the French housing market is fuelling domestic cement demand. While in 2016 cement consumption reached 17.5Mt, the market is expected to continue its expansion this year to around 18Mt. “Our statisticians forecast a growth of 3-4 per cent in 2017, representing a cement demand between 17.9-18.1Mt,” said Raoul de Parisot, president of the French cement association, SFIC. “In the...
Karen National Union asked to cancel its cement plant plans
Karen National Union received a petition by nearly 1000 residents from Mon State asking to cancel a quarry and a cement factory planned for construction in a mountain pass, near the township of Thaton, Myanmar. The Min Lwin Mountain is sacred to the locals and the planned projects could lead to deforestation, extinction of wildlife, land disputes as well as pollution, local residents claim. ...
Khrew Cement is on target to reach 0.9Mta capacity
Production capacity at JK Cement's Khrew cement plant in India is expected to soon surpass 0.9Mta, the company informed Minister for Industries and Commerce, Chander Parkash Ganga, who recently visited the Khrew factory to view the laboratory, analytical lab and kiln. The minister also highlighted the importance of strictly conforming to the pollution measures introduced by the governmen...
Vietnam output up 8.1%
Vietnam produced 33.6Mt of cement in the first five months of this year, up 8.1 per cent from a year earlier, including 7.7Mt in May, up 12.1 per cent, according to latest data of the government-run General Statistics Office. In the first four months, Vietnamese cement producers manufactured 25.9Mt of cement, according to the office’s revised figure. In 2016 they produced 78.6Mt of cement, ...
Cemex participates in first underwater tunnel in Latin America
Cemex participated in the construction of the Coatzacoalcos Underwater Tunnel in Veracruz, Mexico, an innovative infrastructure project in Latin America. The dimensions of this complex construction required the company to design and deliver special concretes to build the different structures that shaped the tunnel and its points of access. Because the construction was underwater, Constructo...
MPA publishes long-term aggregate demand and supply study for GB
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has set out long-term aggregate demand and supply scenarios for Great Britain (GB) level until 2030. Launched at the joint Royal Town Planning Institute/Mineral Products Association Mineral Planning Conference held on 24 May at the NEC in Birmingham, the study aims to provide industry and industry stakeholders with indications of the potential volu...
Paraguay: INC welcomes Senate move on cement use
The president of Paraguay’s Industria Nacional de Cemento (INC), Jorge Méndez, has welcomed the approval granted by the country’s Senate of a bill that establishes the use of domestic cement in road construction. Mr Méndez said if the initiative is also passed in the National Congress and accepted by the government, it will contribute to the growth of the country not only in terms of benefi...
Colombian market contracts 15%
In April 2017 cement consumption in Colombia fell 14.9 per cent to 0.9Mt from 1.058Mt in April 2017, according to Colombia’s statistics office, Dane. Sales across all distribution channels slipped with construction companies and contractors requiring 19.1 per cent less, ready-mix companies 16.6 per cent lower volumes and a 12 per cent reduction at retail level. In terms of departments, ...
Dalmia Cement supplies India's longest bridge
Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Ltd has supplied 17,000t of high-quality cement for the construction of the Dhola-Sadiya bridge connecting Arunachal Pradesh to Assam, which was inaugurated on Friday by India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Realised through a consortium of companies, Dhola-Sadiya is India's longest bridge, spanning a distance of 9.15km across the Brahmaputra river. It is located 540k...
Jamaica Labour Ministry intervenes in Carib Cement unrest
Jamaica's Ministry of Labour has intervened following industrial action by workers at Caribbean Cement Company over the company's wage offer, local media report. Ministry officials entered a meeting with union representatives after workers at the company’s Rockfort plant protested on Friday morning. Workers believe that the offer of a three per cent increase in year one and four per cent inc...
Pakistan Economic Survey forecasts growth in cement industry
The performance of the Pakistan cement industry has been remained encouraging and recorded good growth in the fiscal year to-date. Going forward, the prospects continue to be bright, according to the recently-released Pakistan Economic Survey 2016-17, as the government identifies locations for future investment in the cement sector. The new survey, published yesterday, shows that growth in ...
Holcim Philippines capacity to reach 10Mta by 2Q-end
Holcim Philippines Inc said its production capacity is expected to reach 10Mta by the end of the second quarter through upgrades to its plants at Mabini and Norzagaray. Holcim Philippines Chief Operating Officer, Sapna Sood, said in an interview with The Standard (Philippines) debottlenecking of existing cement facilities would add 2Mta of capacity. “We certainly had a project where we w...